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One thing I do know is a black man can be dressed to impress, dressed as a businessman or other positive, speak affluent and etc. in a fashion that a white man can be seen in the same but I have heard of many incidents where the black man was treated as less human just because.

I am not going to get into a debate over who is the most racist but when folk do debate the issue, I ask that you make sure that the debate includes the status of the person carrying out the racist act. Actually I have not met a racist black man or know of one.

A black man being abused by a white man in authority be it law enforcement, supervisory role and other titles speaks volume.

A white man being challenged by a black man because of the racism displayed can not be compared to a white man in authority that use his power to carry out his mission.

A strange Supreme Court alliance just struck a blow against racial gerrymandering in the United States.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at the memorial service for his former colleague Antonin Scalia on March 1, 2016, in Washington, D.C.

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On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision holding that two congressional districts in North Carolina were racially gerrymandered in violation of the Constitution. The broad ruling will likely have ripple effects on litigation across the country, helping plaintiffs establish that state legislatures unlawfully injected race into redistricting. And, in a welcome change, the decision did not split along familiar ideological lines: Justice Clarence Thomas joined the four liberal justices to create a majority, following his race-blind principles of equal protection to an unusually progressive result.

Cooper v. Harris, Monday’s case, involves North Carolina’s two most infamous congressional districts, District 1 and District 12. In the 1990s, the Democratic-controlled state legislature gerrymandered both districts into bizarre shapes that appeared to be drawn along racial lines. (Read more)

A panel of three federal judges determined that the 1st Congressional District, which spread like an octopus across northeast North Carolina and has a tentacle that dips into Durham County, and the 12th Congressional District, which snaked along Interstate 85 between Greensboro and Charlotte, were drawn specifically so that the majority of voters in each were black. (Read more)